AN ENGLISH CUBIST

WILLIAM ROBERTS:

A Rustic Scene

Illustration © The Estate of John David Roberts. Catalogue information based on the catalogue raisonné by David Cleall. For this and full details of the exhibitions cited, see the links below. Any auction prices quoted may not include all fees and taxes, such as VAT and Artist's Resale Right charges.

A Rustic Scene (aka Village Scene, Country Scene and The Farm), 1922–3
Oil on canvas, 48.9 cm x 59.7 cm

Painted while staying at Pett Level, the Sussex home of John Knewstub, the director of the Chenil Galleries
PROVENANCE: Sir Edward Marsh > Contemporary Art Society (1923, as Village Scene) > Wakefield Art Gallery (1935, as Landscape)
EXHIBITION HISTORY: Chenil Galleries 1923 (as A Rustic Scene), Wakefield 1936 (as Country Scene), Tate Gallery 1965 and tour (as A Rustic Scene), Newcastle 2004 (as The Farm (A Rustic Scene or Country Scene))
REPRODUCED: New Coterie, no. 2 (spring 1926), opposite p. 48 (without a title)